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Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs to be shown on Facebook and Instagram . The letter comes after the Tech Transparency Project uncovered hundreds of such ads on the company’s platform., which used Meta ’s ad library to find 450 Instagram and Facebook ads “selling an array of pharmaceutical and other drugs.
The letter requests details about Meta’s policies for enforcing rules against drug-related ads, as well as information about how many times the reported ads were viewed and interacted with. It gives Meta a deadline of September 6 to reply. A spokesperson for Meta said the company plans to respond to the letter and directed Engadget to a prior statement,, in which the company said it rejects “hundreds of thousands of ads for violating our drug policies.
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